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Five Good Ideas ® on advocating for change from the frontline

25 Mar 2024

Workers on the frontline are the most connected to the everyday realities of systemic poverty and the myriad ways that policy gaps and loopholes manifest as harm. [...] Be real: Break down the barriers between frontline worker and an advocate, including the successes and praxis and systems change work. [...] As someone Resources with lived experience of social services and of being unhoused, • Terra Loire Gillespie’s Community Builder Hub, which Diana’s work focuses on human includes Toronto-centric resources that are helpful for rights and equity issues for people who are experiencing organizing and community development efforts. [...] program and has served on the steering committees • The Press Officer Handbook, a guide to creative and boards of Justice for Children and Youth and effective media in progressive movements. [...] She is an alumna of • How community organizing and community Maytree Policy School, a fellow of the McNally Project for development organizations can “walk the line”: Paramedicine Research, a Board Director of the Chinese- examples from my chapter in Displacement City: Canadian Intercultural Association, and a founding Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic (2022).
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